Gambling

Can I Bet on the Aaron Hernandez Trial Online?

While many folks would love to bet on the Aaron Hernandez murder trial, none of the online bookmakers are offering such odds at this time.

Adam Silver Talks Legalized Betting on the NBA With ESPN

NBA commissioner Adam Silver sits down with Andy Katz on "Outside The Lines" to discuss disciplinary issues facing the league, teams wanting to lose to obtain a higher Draft pick and the issue of legalized sports betting on the NBA.

Flashback November of this past year.  Silver raised plenty of eyebrows throughout the sports world and beyond with his opt-in piece appearing in the New York Times supporting the notion that sports betting should be legalized in the U.S. and how it would help increase the National Basketball Association’s popularity.

Judge Finds Evidence Tainted in Poker Pro Paul Phua Case: FBI in the Wrong

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Undercover FBI and Nevada regulatory agents misled a federal judge and violated the rights of a wealthy Malaysian businessman and his son by posing as Internet repairmen to get into Las Vegas Strip hotel rooms in a gambling probe last summer, a U.S. magistrate judge said.

Fantasy Sports New Kid Sideleague.com has an App for You

CHICAGO -- Are you a fantasy sports player?

There's an app for that.

As more and more people play in fantasy sports leagues that they access via their mobile devices rather than their computers, the leagues are making it easier for them to do so.

Nevada Casino Winnings Drop to $11 Billion in 2014

LAS VEGAS — (Associated Press) - Nevada's slow and steady gambling winning streak ended in 2014 with $11 billion captured behind casino cages, down 1.1 percent from a year ago.

The places where the winnings dropped or didn't is what interested David Schwartz, the director of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Center for Gaming Research.

The Las Vegas Strip's casinos were down 16.4 percent in December to $555 million and 2.1 percent for the year to $6.4 billion, according to Gaming Control Board statistics released Friday.

Washington State Lawmakers Want to Legalize Fantasy Sports

OLYMPIA, Wash. — (Associated Press) - Lawmakers in Washington state - home to the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks - may legalize gambling on fantasy football by classifying fantasy sports as games of skill.

FanDuel Sued: Daily Fantasy Sports and the Start of Class Action Season

While billions of dollars of sports betting continues in the shadowy world of illegal off-shore sports books, the fantasy sports business has been on fire.  And as fantasy sports becomes the new hot “thing” online, it has continued to evolve: Dozens of companies are entering the market to offer everything thing from the increasingly common single day fantasy contests to the stock market-like contest offered by recent arrival.  Throughout the explosion of interest, two companies – FanDuel and Draft Kings have remained the behemoths of the industry.

What’s a Good Pay Per Head for Super Bowl 49

There will most certainly be a high demand for a solid Pay Per Head this Super Bowl 49 and RealBookies.com per head service should certainly be considered.  

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BetDSI.com Begins Offering Bitcoin as Payment Option

BetDSI.com, one of the biggest and most established online sportsbooks, has officially opened Bitcoin as an option for all members just in time for the Super Bowl.  As always, you can claim up to $2500 in free cash when joining BetDSI.com.

Nitrogen Sports Bitcoin Book to Begin Accepting US Dollars

Nitrogen Sports is beginning to distinguish itself from one of those many fly-by-night “Bitcoin-only” books that have come and gone with the drop of a….well, the drop of the anonymous digital currency’s price.  A great number of these so-called sportsbooks existed only to take advantage of the dramatic swings in Bitcoin's price, benefitting from upward mobility.  Those days appear to be over.

Sheldon Adelson Reboots Efforts to Outlaw Online Gambling: DC Powwow

Casino mogul and GOP mega donor Sheldon Adelson will restart his campaign to outlaw online gambling in the US. 

Online Gambling Sites to be Blocked in UK Thanks to ‘Porn Shields’

The dreaded “porn shields” are coming, at least for those folks in the UK who utilized ISPs from Talk Talk and Sky.  Caught in the crosshairs, online gambling websites.

In July 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron revealed plans to order Internet Service Providers to block porn websites and require users to contact the provider in order to have sites unblocked. 

Germany Targets Online Gamblers: Fines Man €65,000

A 25-year-old German blackjack player has been fined €65,000 for patronizing a Gibraltar-based site that holds a United Kingdom license.  The player in question had amassed €201,500 in winnings this past summer.

Paddy Power Funded FIFA Campaign in Jeopardy

LONDON — (Associated Press) - Even if David Ginola gains the nominations required by Thursday's deadline to stand against Sepp Blatter, his improbable bookmaker-funded campaign could be scuppered by FIFA's gambling rules.

Ginola's campaign is being organized by stunt-prone Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, which is paying the former France international 250,000 pounds ($375,000) to seek the FIFA presidency.